Airbus A350-1000 Starts Middle East and Asia Pacific Tour

Spotters in the Middle East, Asia and Pacific regions keep an eye out over coming weeks for the Airbus A350-1000 demonstrator aircraft which has begun a tour.

The three-week Demonstration Tour follows the completion of a successful flight test campaign, which lasted less than one year and culminated in joint EASA and FAA type certification, demonstrating the aircraft’s excellent design, performance and maturity.The A350-1000 tour comes ahead of the first customer delivery to Qatar Airways, which is expected in February 2018.

Airbus A350-1000 Demonstration Tour

During the tour, the A350-1000 flight test aircraft (MSN065) will visit 12 destinations to demonstrate the aircraft’s exclusive features to airlines. The itinerary will see it travel over 30,000 nautical miles / 55,500 kilometres, with stops at the following airports:

Doha

Muscat

Hong Kong

Seoul

Taipei

Hanoi

Singapore

Bangkok

Sydney

Auckland

Tokyo

Manila

The aircraft will stop for several days in Singapore, where it will be on static display from 6 to 8 February at the Singapore Airshow 2018.

MSN065 is one of the three Airbus A350-1000 test aircraft and is equipped with a fully functional cabin (40 business class, 36 economy plus class and 219 comfort economy class seats). The demonstration flights will be operated by Airbus flight test crews.